{"id":116662,"date":"2016-03-24T10:18:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T08:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/116662\/on-this-day-in-history-space-shuttle-sts-45-launched-into-space\/"},"modified":"2016-03-24T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T08:18:27","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-space-shuttle-sts-45-launched-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/03\/24\/on-this-day-in-history-space-shuttle-sts-45-launched-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history: Space Shuttle STS-45 launched into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 24, 1992, the Space Shuttle STS-45 launched into space.<\/p>\n<p>STS-45 was a mission using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The almost nine day scientific mission was with a non-deployable payload of instruments. It was the 46th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th for Atlantis.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/Corbis-42-22734984.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-100943 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/Corbis-42-22734984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atlantis was launched on 24 March 1992, at 8:13 am. The launch was originally scheduled for 23 March, but was delayed by one day because of higher-than-allowable concentrations of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the orbiter&#8217;s aft compartment during tanking operations.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During troubleshooting, the leaks could not be reproduced, leading engineers to believe that they were the result of plumbing in the main propulsion system; the launch was rescheduled for 24 March.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantis weighed 105 982 kilograms at launch.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/A6ssS4YyiIY' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='572b32bde8dcd42e5964d23e7a69e138'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1992, the Space Shuttle STS-45 launched into space using the Space Shuttle Atlantis in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":116663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10331,9666,10332,3305,10333,10334,10335,10336,10337,10338,3666],"class_list":["post-116662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-10331","tag-america","tag-atlantis","tag-history","tag-houston-texas","tag-on-this-day","tag-on-this-day-in-in-1992","tag-space","tag-space-shuttle","tag-the-space-shuttle-sts-45-launched-into-space-using-the-space-shuttle-atlantis","tag-usa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["1992","America","Atlantis","history","Houston Texas","on this day","On this day in in 1992","space","space shuttle","the Space Shuttle STS-45 launched into space using the Space Shuttle Atlantis","USA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}